Computational Photography - 45 Gigapixel Panorama of Dubai

If you venture to GigaPan.org you will find the largest digital panorama to date. The image of Dubai was created by photographer Gerald Donovan and is 45 gigapixels in size. If printed at high resolution it would be the size of 1,200 billboards.

In the image, which can be found at GigaPan.org, you can zoom in on Burj Khailfa, the world’s tallest building, along with hundreds of other structures in the city. The image has good clarity, though Donovan says the city’s poor air quality is to blame for the fact that it looks slightly muddled.

Using the GigaPan EPIC Pro robotic camera, which is based on technology used by NASA’s Mars Rover, Donovan captured over 4,000 pictures of Dubai, then stitched all the photos together to create one image.

"This was intended as a technical test," said Donovan said in a press release. "It was about exploring the limits of the hardware and software out there."


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